Gentoo Archives: gentoo-dev

From: Lars Weiler <pylon@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Using cvs as your portage directory
Date: Thu, 25 Mar 2004 02:55:08
Message-Id: 20040325025443.GP4150@celeborn.wh-og.hs-niederrhein.de
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] Using cvs as your portage directory by Stuart Herbert
1 * Stuart Herbert <stuart@g.o> [04/03/23 22:54 +0000]:
2 > But the tree has reached the size where syncing the entire tree from CVS is
3 > very slow - and it must put a strain on the CVS server too. I wonder if we
4 > should seriously start looking to migrate from CVS to something a little more
5 > network friendly ...
6
7 Are you asking for something like cvsup [1]?
8
9 So, as there were more devs asking for it, we should find
10 out, if we can build up such a system. Another advantage
11 would be distributing the tree on more than one system.
12
13 Testing cvsup is on my list for a long time, but it has not
14 a high priority.
15
16 Regards, Lars
17
18 [1] http://www.cvsup.org/